Impact of direct disk-diffusion testing on time to optimal antibiotic therapy

• Main Authors: Tulip A. Jhaveri (Author), Ahmad Taqi (Author), Jeffrey C. Pearson (Author), Sanjat Kanjilal (Author)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: Cambridge University Press, 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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We evaluated the impact of preliminary blood-culture antibiotic susceptibility testing on time to optimal antibiotic therapy in a cohort of 503 patients with monomicrobial bloodstream infections. The median time from blood-culture collection to optimal antibiotics was 17 hours earlier in the prelimi...